Sow health
Maintaining sow health throughout the breeding cycle is an important focus for producers. The pressure to deliver more piglets per sow per year increases concerns around sow reproductive and health challenges.
Preventing and managing diseases, as well as carefully managing the farrowing process, are critical to optimizing a sow’s welfare and productivity.
Preventing disease
Infection pressure, shedding patterns, vertical and horizontal transmission are all critical parts of the infection chain of pathogens that can cause disease to occur throughout the swine herd.
Preventing transmission of disease from sow to piglet is essential to the overall health of your herd. Eliminating infections from the breeding herd results in a stronger immune system and decreased shedding of the virus or bacteria.
Farrowing
Around farrowing, sows and piglets face a number of interrelated challenges known as sow peripartal syndrome (SPS). For sows, SPS results in negative energy balance, peripartal hypophagia (suppressed calorie intake), early birth, suboptimal body condition, peripartal hypogalactia (low milk production), slow labour and peripartal constipation. For the piglet, this leads to reduced performance, and increased risk of neonatal mortality and stillbirth. Trouw Nutrition solutions are based on extensive research mapping all the root causes of SPS.